George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
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It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.
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A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.
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The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.
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I believe in music because it has the power of change.
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People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them.
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One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
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I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew.
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I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.
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I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.
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All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.
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I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.
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Those who are greatly occupied in physical or material matters lack sufficient knowledge or have only superficial understanding of spiritual matters. Therefore, such people's opinions and judgments concerning spiritual matters carry no weight.
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We should all be allies to ideas or people or initiatives that we don't necessarily have a real knowledge in.
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The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
